Milking-machine.



PATENTED JUNE 5, 1906.

T. M. WADE.

I MILKING. MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED SEPT.22.1905.

. h m H n ,ll; n... Q; A. 1

i 13 f3 1 70 j] Q; (Mason Be it known that I, THADIOUS UNI ED STArns I PATENT) orrron.

'rnamons M. WADE, GELITHOPOLIS, orno; IIVIILKING-FMACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent. J Application filed September 22. 1905- Se'rial No. 379,676.

Patented June 5, 1906.

T allv whom it may concern:

p M. WADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Lithopolis, in the county of Fairfield and State of Ohio, have invented certain new'and I usefu Improvements in Milking-Machines,

of which the following is a specification. This invention embodies improvements in milkin -mac.hines consisting mainly of a re:

[0 ceptac e for receiving the milk and suitable tubes and teat-cups whereby the milk-receiving receptacle is, adapted to be connected with the bag of the animal in the milking operation.

In carrying out the invention the milk-re- '15 ceiving receptacle comprises a vacuum-tank,

a pum being connected therewith to create a partia vacuum in the tank, and the mechanism includes a special form of header connected'with the tank and adapted to be con- 2o nected with the tubes which are attached to the teat-cups.

For a full description of the invention and the merits thereof and also to acquire a knowledge of the details of construction of 2 5 the means for effecting the result reference is to be had to the following description and accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the machine embodying the invention. Fig. 2 is a 0 vertical sectional view thereof. Fig. 3 is a detail section of the lower portion of the pump and means connectingthe same to the cover, parts broken away. Corresponding and like parts are referred 3 5 to in the followin description and indicated in all the views 0 the drawings by the same reference characters. I

In the drawings the numeral 1- designates the receptacle or tank to which the milk is conducted when the machine is in operation, and said tank may be of any suitabe size necessary for the purposes of the invention. The tank LUIS provided with a suitable cover 2, removable therefrom, and a number of small pivoted screw-clamps 3 are secured to the upper portion of the tank and are adapted to oact with lugs 4 on thecover, securing the latter thereto. Awasher 5.is preferably mterposed between the tank and the cover thereof, so that when the cover is secured in lace an air-tight connection will be established between the 'same and the receptacle 1 The pump 6 is of the exhaust type and is attached r1g1dly to the upper side of the cover 2,

' being operable by a suitable handle 7. The

cover 2 is also furnished with a cook or faucet 8, which admits of emptyin the tank after the same has been filled. laterally from the cover and connected with an opening through'said cover is a pipe 9, the outer end of which is formed with a header 10, comprising a plurality" of radial tubes 11, connected to a common head. The pipe 9 is rigid and projects a sufficient distance from the tank or receptacle 1 to permit of the use of comparatively short tubes in connecting the header with theteats of the animal. The above is advantageous in that the weight of lon tubes ordinarily connecting the tank wit the teat-cups is dispensed with and this weight is of course removed from the bag of the animal. The several tubes 11 are proplugs 12, readil removable for cleansing purposes, and a jacent the plugs 12 are located upwardly-projecting nipples 13, admitting of ready attachment of the milk tubes 14, which are provided at the outer ends thereof with teat-cups 15. Between the nipples 13 and the point of connection of the tubes 11 with the pipe 9 are arranged the valves 16, which are adapted tocut off com- 14. Between the valves 16 and the nipples 13 each of the tubes 1'1 is cut away, and the cutaway portion is closed by a transparent plate 17, of glass or any other similar transarent material, whereby the flow of the Iacte'al fluid from the tu es 14 through the tubes-11 may be observed. In actual opera tion the pump 6 is first worked until a artial vacuum has been created in the tan 1. The tank may now be located adjacent the animal to be milked and the teat-cups '15 are applied to the bag, receiving the teats of the animal, the valves 16 being opened so as to create a suction whereby the cups 15 are made to adhere to the bag in the customary Way. It will be obvious t at the milk will be readily extracted as soon as the valves 16 have been opened and the cups 1 5 properly applied, and an important feature of the invention'resides in the fact that it is not necessary to operate any mechanism during the milking operation which would be likely to irritate the animal or otherwise disturb. it. Such advantage is secured, of course, because of the disposition of the pump and the manner of connecting the teat-cups with the receptacle 1, whereby a constant partial vacuum may though thesame is being filled with. fluid.

ecting vide'd at the outer ends thereof with screwmunication between the pipe 9 and the tubes I I I o v be maintained in the receptacle 1 even A milking-machine comprising a milk-re- I oeptacle with a removable top havin fastenmg devices for clamping it to the mil -receptacle, an exhaustepump supported bysaid top, a radially-extending pi e rigidly secured to and supported by sai top and extending therefrom in an approximately horizontal direction, a header connected to'the outer end of said rigid pipe and consisting of a plurality of radial tubes connected to a common head,

each of said tubes being provided near its outer end With an upwardly-projecting nipple, a plug in the end of each tube beyond the said nlpple, a val secured to each tube near the inner end glilereof, a transparent I plate in each tube between the plug and the 'valve and teat-cups rovided with tubes connected to said nipples.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

THADIOUS M. WADE. [L. s.] Witnesses':i THEODORE KRAMER,

CHARLES TERBUSH. 

